Chuck: ‘Pokemon Go’ West Bottoms Showdown

20160805_073044I don’t really get this Pokemon thing…

But here is a picture taken yesterday at 6:45 a.m. of Pokemon players in the West Bottoms waiting to get into some building. It looks like there’s a cop there. Jesus.

I read a book by Neal Stephenson recently called “Reamde“.  It was an excellent escape about a family, whose patriarch invents a computer war game (a la Call Of Duty) that becomes monetized and delivers enormous sums of money to the winners.

Which got me thinking about POKEMAN GO.  (Full disclosure, I have only a general idea of how to play it, certainly,but not why you would play it.  However,  I’m in my dotage and don’t understand why you can’t just meet a girl in the real world instead of on some dating website )

A friend of mine who works at a TRANE distributor, took this picture.  The 50 or so people in it are PIKEMAN GO players, waiting for the business at that address (The Foundation at 1221 Union) to open. She thinks they were trying to get in when it opened which apparently wasn’t until like until like 10:00 AM.

The TRANE people were pissed because the POKEMAN people took all their parking. 

pokemon_go_logoIn fact, the initial conversation centered around a First Friday event and why a bunch of drunks had come out so early.  Upon discovery of the facts, the level of contempt elevated and disparaging comments were made by folks disappointed in the lack of the expected DUI revenue the city might have made.

Or maybe – like me – they were confounded by the sight of grown men, women and, teenagers being addicted to peripatetic journeys through traffic, over cliffs, out of windows and through businesses at all hours of the day and night, seeking cartoon characters to destroy on their iPhones.

Seriously, I’m with the men and women from TRANE.

These folks should be out getting hammered.  Or, at the very least making money on this shit. Can it be monetized? If it can’t, it has to STOP!

Someone needs to hand these dudes a cold beer and point them to the nearest NFL game.

The only guys I knew in my generation who would get up this early to go to the West Bottoms, had surnames ending in vowels and bodies in their trunks in need of disposal.

Like I said, not sure I really get the Pokemon stuff…

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31 Responses to Chuck: ‘Pokemon Go’ West Bottoms Showdown

  1. Harley says:

    chucklet:
    the world has changed.
    I know it’s hard for you to understand this but while you have been stoic in
    you hatred and vile anger for the world….everything around you has changed.
    If these people get excitement or enjoyment out of their exploits….god bless
    them.
    the world has changed…and when you are merely under 6 feet of dirt it will still be
    changing.
    Love the change. Love the way we are becoming. You can’t stop it. You could
    never stop it. You are just standing and watching the world go by.
    You are a loser.
    nothing more…nothing less.
    appreciate the change of life. It’s always changing.
    No one agrees with you. Let others live their lives.
    Your’s has been a freaking disgrace. You have no reason to insult those
    people.
    they are smarter than you.
    they have taken over the vile disgusting language you use.
    You are an old worn out man.
    Go get your guns and shoot them chuckles.
    You are not fit for humanity.
    May god bless you and may god give you the wisdom to realize that your world
    is filled with the old and worn out ideas that vanished long ago.
    peace baby….peace!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Fact checker says:

    The photo is of people lined up to get into a Baldwin Jeans warehouse sale. It had nothing to do with Pokemon.

    • Harley says:

      again…chuck and hearne get eggplant on their face (in honor of the incredible
      eggplant that you can get at jaspers).
      But this is not unusual.
      Chuck has always jumped to conclusions and when he always does he
      looks like a jacka$$!
      How true it is this time as it was a clothing sale. Not some people playing
      pokemon which I think was geocache prior to being picked up by
      other company.
      This is typical of the underreporting that has been famous on kcc.
      From glazes total misses on every topic from the royals to the chiefs
      and now again on national politics.
      To southern mans total faceplants and hey southern man …..when are
      we going to hear you take on dumpster and how he’s destroyed your
      party? Stomper and I would love to hear your backtracking on that
      issue!!!!!!!
      To the dead writer…to whiney who predicted a Romney victory….to
      your phony jewel heist story which you never allowed Harley to give
      the real facts (and it did include some top people in theuniversity
      system)….to stolen 10k rolex watches…..and even to wislon and his
      hilarious stories about chasing down hearne’s leads or his total
      craziness about African kids.
      It’s been a long hard slog thru all these stories hearne. One after another
      and the only one standing is Harley>
      HArley PREDICTED A YEAR AGO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN ALLTHE
      RACES…PREDICTED THE ROYALS RUN TO GLORY…..THE CHIEFS
      REBOUND IN 2015….. WHILE THE REST OF THE SENIOR CITIZENS
      ON HERE WERE RELEGATED TO WRITING SOME OF THE MOST
      ABSURD STUPID STORIES EVER ON THE INTERNET.
      Tell us again chucklets what that line wasfor. People searching for
      pokeman? Another eggplant (with special regards to the excellent
      eggplant at Jaspers) faceplant for those who think they know more than
      Harley.
      At this point…Harley can stand on the mountaintop and laugh at what
      kcc writers have written and say “I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT STANDING”
      I was always right (remember in july of 2015 Harley predicted a huge
      victory by Hillary when no one in any area…on tv/in the major publications/
      in the tv news area/Fox news, msnbc, cnn, abc.cbs. nbc/all the high dollar
      political consultants/all this lobbyists and controllers like the Coke brothers/
      Soros/etc. even had any idea of what was happening.
      Hearne…I must say you are lucky to have Harley writing on your blog.
      I only write on blogs like redstate/huffington post and smaller ones like
      dailykos/and a few others. And your blog gets to have Harley give his
      always right on/nails on predictions on a regular basis.
      Many have tried to harass me/harass my family/find out my house/
      attack me/ track me to such places as las vegas (yes wislon did this)…and
      still after all the sh*t storm….ONE MAN STANDS AS THE ABSOLUTE
      CHAMPION OF THE TRUTH…..AND I AM GLAD TO SAY THAT MAN
      REMAINS AND WILL ALWAYS BE HARLEY.
      I DO APPRECIATE HEARNE FOR ALLOWING MY POSTINGS TO BE
      MADE HERE LOCALLY. I WILL NEVER POST ON TONYS SITE…JUST
      TOO MUCH HATRED AND VILE LANGUAGE AGAINST MY GOOD FRIENDS AND FELLOW SELF EMPLOYED BIZ OWNERS LIKE
      GLAZE….BUT WHEN THE REAL MEANING OF THE TRUTH WAS NEEDED THERE WAS ONE PERSON ON KCC AND THE OTHER
      BLOGS….only one commentator gave the correct insight and proven
      true opinions and that was HARLEY.
      Thanks to you hearne for putting up with my poor grammar and spelling
      but I write this so fast beause my time is so limited as I work the computer
      with algorithims (did I spell that right) and advice to the most successful
      businessmen in the nation that I don’t really care if its spelled or grammatically correct.
      Thanks to glaze…who has taken the biggest beating by Harley for his
      comments. Nothing personal glaze…you know I had always admired your
      never say die attitude and y our incredible talents which you have not fully
      used for the good of other people.
      But to those who attacked and harassed me I say just one thing….
      HARLEY IS THE KING. HARLEY REIGNS ATOP THE WORLD. WHEN
      IT LOOKED BLEAK AND DARK HARLEY KNEW THE TRUTH.
      Good luck to all…and to chucklets you must remember one thing…as
      the descendant of great immigrants from another part of the world…you
      sir are an embarrassment to the American dream. My ancestors came
      here with nothing like many other immigrants in America. It was a dream…
      a hope…and a prayer that life here would mean better times for the future.
      YOUR CHUCKLETS ARE THE WORST. I will say that I appreciate your
      service. While many young americans used excuses for not serving this
      nation. They never saw, as I expected you did, the horrors of man’s
      inhumanity to their fellow man. I give you that as a never ending
      compliment. However as I have said before…the world is changing.
      Quicker than any of us could have ever imagined.
      Peace to all of you and may god bless you and the united states of America.
      The ONE AND ONLY…THE NEVER WRONG
      HARLEY!

    • chuck says:

      If that is true, I apologize for the bad information. Some of the folks at the Distributer thought it was POKE MON (Another urban legend.) and indeed, the photo was 6:45 in the AM. Those jeans must be pretty cool.

      I called my buddy back, but it is early on a Sunday to get ahold of her.

  3. Harley says:

    P.S. HEARNE…I HOPE YOU POST MY COMMENTS AS THEY COME IN….
    THANKS FOR THE INK!

  4. CG says:

    Chuck fun article, you are a solid writer. It is an amazing thing going on today…hard for us older folks to get it…WHY THE BIG DEAL? The game seems kinda simple, a bit silly and if you win and are a KNIGHT WHO CARE OR KNOWS? But if people like it hey so be it…

    As for haters attacks, Chuck example of how stupid that is…there is no reason to attack you for this story..its a fun piece and well done. Thank you.

  5. CFPCowboy says:

    Every period has its time consumers, and maybe it is no different than a phone you can play games on instead of reality. It is fun to watch. Is it any funnier watching 100 people scranble over jeans at half price? People watching is fun.

  6. chuck says:

    Again, my apologies for any misrepresentation of what I hoped would be a whimsical and “tongue in cheek” nod to a contemporary phenomenon, which I had hoped would be even funnier based on my age and inability to identify with it.

    To be clear, Hearne was in no way responsible, if this story is inaccurate. I received the picture early that morning from my buddy, she told me the story and we both laughed. I texted the picture to Hearne, because he does enjoy whimsy and I think he probably likes to see some humor here now and again. I sent him a few paragraphs with a few smiley faces and forgot about it.

    Seriously, they must be really cool jeans.

    🙂

    • Harley says:

      Yes glaze, the new world and everything going on is amazing and
      hard for you to understand.
      Of course…looking back you never really got it any time in your life.
      yes…you are older folks…and you look it…no matter what you say.
      When are you going to let Harley show you how to lose that gut…
      planks my man. planks.
      You old guys just don’t get it do you.
      And as always glaze…Harley comes out on top.
      And there are glaze and chucklets and southern man and whiney and
      ekrowackjob….all old and doubled up wondering…”WHAT HAPPENED?_

    • Harley says:

      NO APOLOGIES NEEDED CHUCK.
      MANY PEOPLE ALREADY KNEW THAT MOST OF YOUR COMMENTS
      WERE BULL SH*T ANYWAY.
      JUST PAR FOR THE COURSE THAT YOU’D BE SO FAR OFF AGAIN.
      MAYBE NEXT TIME DO A LITTLE RESEARCH.
      HARLEY REIGNS.

  7. Newbaumturk says:

    Yesterday I was sitting on the patio at Jeffersons in Lawrence. Next to the patio the sidewalk is a little uneven. We saw at least 10 people looking at their phone trip over the sidewalk. Judging from some of their conversations we know at least some of them were playing Pokémon, if not all. It got to be funny for us to watch people trip. Unfortunately, none of them fell down.

    • Harley says:

      newbaum…they’re introducing a special watch to help people navigate
      the pokemon search.
      Crazy as it is its’ the fastest moving app ever. Was supposed to be
      introduced continent by continent over a period of time but
      was so popular that it spread worldwide in hours.
      Tell chuckles to be careful. We don’t want him running into any trees
      or being hit by a trash truck when he plays the game~!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. Fact checker says:

    Chuck:

    Apparently you don’t have daughters in their teens or twenties. If you did you would understand the Baldwin jeans phenomenon. No apology necessary

    • chuck says:

      You are correct. My youngest daughter is 32 and lives in California.

      Harley is correct, I should have done more “research”.

      Harley, that blind pig, sits on a pile of acorns, thanks to me.

      Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.

      • Harley says:

        not a blind pig ditch digger…
        education…forward looking….able to access the future in relation to important issues…and more important…the most
        articulate and knowledgeable writer/commentator on here
        who is always proven right.
        It’s not by chance. I have always been great at analytics.
        Its not by chance. I have always been able to see thru the
        b.s. of people like you and glaze and realize that you were
        consistently wrong. Same goes for hearne/southern man/
        the dead dude and kerowacky who with all their b.s. never
        fully understood the world around them.
        Harley has proven time and time again that he knows
        the facts. and that he can take the facts…organize them then
        use his intuitive mind to predict the future events long before
        anyone else…including people who are pundits/experts and
        even those who are paid to be able to see into the future.
        When over a year ago I predicted a Clinton landslide the
        facts were very simple. No president candidate can win without 40% of the Hispanic vote in todays demographic society.
        And knowing that Hillary would have several huge names out
        on the trail (including Obama who’s approval ratings I predicted
        would grow as his term got closer to it’s end).
        I looked at the republicans and they failed to listen or pay
        attention to the paper that said they had to expand their
        market of voters beyond just white male voters to include
        minorities. Knowing that that would never happen it was
        an easy calculation that they would get so few voters from
        40% of the electorate/that the white male vote had been
        declining/that trump was a conman and they would exploit
        it/knowing that the masterminds of obamas 2 campaigns
        were going to run Hillary’s campaign/and most importantly
        knowing that the Clintons were the smartest political team
        we have ever seen in American politics that prediction was
        very simple.
        You chuck are what we call a simpleton. A fool who got taken
        for the ride thru republican manipulation of the media and
        that your mind just wasn’t wired correctly as many republicans
        mind weren’t. You continually voted against your own best
        interests as a white working man and that eventually the
        numbers would turn on you. We saw this in 2008 during the
        great recession and I could see that the brunt of the correction
        by Obama would have to fall somewhere…and it fell on
        simpletons like you.
        Despite your attempt to bamboozle us with your extensive
        vocabulary we knew that deep down you were a Nazi sympathizer and white power supporter. and in the end
        we said “WE WILL NEVER FORGET”,
        sO I CAME OUT LONG BEFORE PRESIDENT BUSH AND
        SAID THAT WE WOULD NEVER SEE ANOTHER REPUBLICAN
        PRESIDENT AND DUMPSTER MADE THAT PREDICTION
        MADE IT EVEN GREATER WITH HIS HATE AND VILE
        LANGUAGE TO LARGE PORTIONS OF THE AMERICAN
        PUBLIC.
        But as a veteran, and I have talked with many vets since I
        volunteer at the VA on Saturdays, that attack on the Khan family broke the camel’s back. Attacking the gold star
        family was probably the worst thing dumpster could do…
        especially with his 5 deferrments.
        I hope you rot in hell. You are a disgrace to the uniform
        you wore. But as I said I honor your service…nut will never
        honor the hate and vile comments you wrote on here and
        on tony’s blog.
        You are not a religious man. I can tell. You’re a hater worse
        than anyone who attacks glaze or you on a simple bloglike
        kcc.
        May you rot forever
        You dug your own grave so to speak…and now you must
        rest in it.
        Calling for the BURNING OF THE JEWS was the final
        straw.
        You sir are a sick/in need of help individual.
        Please get help.
        Try the VA.
        Sincerely…the great one again stands on top of garbage heap
        of the fools on kcc…
        Your friend Harley.

        • admin says:

          Harley:
          If you were half as intelligent as you would have us all believe, you’d recognize the fact that your extreme and crude descriptions and comments about some of the writers and readers here label you as little more than a nut job who marries extremely poor judgement and extremely poor taste in most of your commentaries.
          If it’s credibility you seek, why not recognize that and change your crude, crass, lowbrow ways?

          • Harley says:

            look at yourself hearne…..
            I’m not the attacker….I’m the one attacked.
            If you had listened to me long ago you would
            have jettisoned glaze/leftsetz/kerowackyjob/chuck the Nazi
            and others who only bring in the stupidest
            most inane and wrong predictions on everything they write about.
            How about your attempt to defame the
            jewelers from the plaza? or wislons story
            on shoemakers or his investigative stories.
            Take away all them plus glaze and replace them
            with real writers and you would have an
            excellent attempt at being taken seriously.
            Now its just a collection of stooges with no
            brains. Publishing glaze’s story on his dogs
            licking his b*lls was very high brow journalism.
            Of course you know…you worked for the star
            until they derailed you.
            Get some real intelligent people writing on here
            instead of these clowns and kcc could get some
            readers.
            Til then….this is nothing but a circus of
            idiots as writers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
            You can do better!!!!!!!!!!!!!
            And why do I have to prove myself…I do it
            everyday with correct/on the spot/perfectly
            defined predictions long before any other
            so called “experts” write about a subject.
            WORK ON YOURSELF….YOU’LL DO BETTER.

          • admin says:

            I DUNNO, H…

            BUT LAST I CHECKED, I WASN’T THE ONE WRITING ABOUT GLAZER’S DOGS

  9. chuck says:

    Gawd!!!!

    That was maybe Harley’s Magnum Opus.

    You rotten white Republican, Nazi, ROT IN HELL!!! I am not sure where the “Burn the Jews” sh*t came from, but who cares.

    That was fu*kin awesome.

    ROT FOREVER!!!!!

    🙂

    I seriously got the giggles and I can’t stop laughing.

    ROT IN HELL !!!!! FOREVER!!!!

    I gotta think about it, but I think this is Harley’s Jack Nicholson, “Shining” moment in front of the keyboard.

    All work and no play makes Harley a dull boy.

    I know the word “awesome” is galactically over used, but that was awesome!

  10. chuck says:

    Harley, I don’t think I can recall you ever using that “Rot in hell” line before.

    I would work that one every time you comment.

    Maybe it is just me, but in my opinion, that is your best line. I loved it!

    🙂

    • Harley says:

      figures…a low life such as yourself who curses at retail store employees…
      who uses horrible references….who is an unabashed hater not just of
      some people but of almost every…who is a loser in life.
      Unfortunately…people like you chuck take up too much space on this
      small planet. Only way to get rid of vile/angry/disgusting people like you
      is to put you in your place.
      As one person who wrote to my email pointed out “I thought people
      like chuck no longer existed except in the backwoods. People like
      him are the reason we have problems. Always hating. Never seeing
      the sunlight. Never seeing the positive side of life. How sad a life
      he leads. He will not be missed when his time is up”.
      So true chuck.
      You truly are a loser.
      And that’s the end of this story.

  11. the dude says:

    Gotta catch ’em all!

  12. Tree says:

    I stumbled across this web site last night & stayed up late reading it. Thoroughly enjoyed it! The only wet fart is Harley’s comments, which I have stopped reading because the amount of irrational, vile & narcissistic negativity make me feel sick to my stomach. This is a SERIOUSLY unstable person. And are we sure “he” is a dude? Sounds more like a scorned woman…..just saying.

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